Laptop to Laptop (LT)

budhisetiawan

Ok folks...time to show your stuff!!!

I work for "a company"...who has showed time and time again how worthless their ITS department is...LOL At least in our department!!!

I have been issued a new laptop...and the guy is going to come and do my switch next week...Now I got him to put me off to last but a mass email came out saying how everyone was having issues since he messed with theirs!!! He isnt swapping over everything....

We are running XP...isnt there something that XP has where you can just run it and it saves all your stuff and then you just put it on a JD (Jump Drive) and then take it to the other LT and run it and it does it there?

I swear there is somthing like that!

My fear is Outlook! We/I (more than some others in the company use outlook like a freak) am freeked that this guy is gonna loose my or screw up my stuff...

Once again isnt there somethign there to do a quick swap here?

Show me your stuff!!!...I have the weekend to get this ready!!! and if he screws this up have my stuff ready to go!!!

kryyst

If you use exchange then your emails can be sucked back in off the exchange server easily. Then if you are a good user the only things you should need to back up are your My Documents, My Pics, My Videos, My Music, Desktop and Favorites folders. If you aren't running exchange then you can just copy your .pst file from outlook as well which is located in c:\documents and settings\username\application data\local settings\microsoft\outlook.

XP does have a migration tool, I've never used it and I don't know how well it works.

budhisetiawan

we do use exchange...but i have a personal folder setup and a exchange setup on the laptop...basically so i can keep my work calendar and personal calendar side by side and not conflict but not have the power that be see my personal calendar stuff

Soooo....looks like the outlook manemanament system is the way i am going to go...figured as much....

Anyone got any ideas about the XP thing....

kryyst

so then you'd need to backup the personal folder also and import it into the new device. So if you go into
c: \documents and settings\Username\application data\local settings\microsoft\outlook
you should see .ost and .pst folders. The .ost folders are the exchange ones and you shouldn't need to transfer them to the new machine when you connect the new machine back to outlook it'll pull all of those emails back in. However you would need to transfer the .pst files usually personal.pst and possibly archive.pst. You can ignore any other files there.